PARIS (AP) — A pair of heavily armed brothers suspected in the deadly storming of a satirical newspaper were cornered inside a printing house near Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday and appear to have taken a hostage, officials said.
Hundreds of...

PARIS (AP) — A French police official says 11 people are dead in a shooting at a satirical weekly newspaper in central Paris.
Xavier Castaing, head of communications for the Paris police prefecture, confirmed the deaths.
French President Francois...

PARIS — Paris could absolutely rest on her laurels. Even if the whole city ceased creating new and beautiful things to awe guests tomorrow, it would still be one of the most popular places to visit. Lord knows, producing those little Eiffel Tower...

So who will be the Jesse Owens of the Sochi Winter Olympics?
Who will be the brave athlete who shines in rebuttal to Russia's crackdown on anything determined to be "gay propaganda."
Welcome to the new Cold War.
For Owens, the nemesis was...

A gunman's brutal act in Newtown shattered a sunny December morning, forever changing the lives of many Connecticut families and inducing an international avalanche of horrified grief, anger and compassion.
Twenty of the victims were children, most of...

Over the past week, French farmers have used tractors to block the border with Germany and chucked foreign vegetables off trucks in protest of cheap imports. French leaders did not call in the police — they gave the farmers their support. France's...

Angry French farmers relented Thursday after a day of protesting low milk and meat prices by blocking roads to Mont Saint-Michel and the Alps — but warned that other agricultural protests are on the horizon. The farmers used tires, tractors and tree...

The December climate change conference in Paris is the last chance for a meaningful agreement that would offer hope for a planet at risk due to greenhouse gases, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said Wednesday. Figueres is deep into preparations...

The latest developments at the Vatican's meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ 9:30 p.m. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has denounced the European Union for leaving Italy to deal with waves of...

As dawn broke in Brussels on Monday, Europe's frazzled leaders gazed into an abyss: the looming exit of Greece from a common currency that symbolized European unity. Hours past a midnight deadline to clinch a Greek bailout deal, German Chancellor Angela...

Here are the latest developments involving an agreement between Iran and world powers in Vienna over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program (all times EDT): 9:45 p.m. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she supports the deal six major...

The latest on Greece's financial crisis (all times local): 1 a.m. ___ The International Monetary Fund says Greece will need debt relief and 85 billion euros ($94 billion) in new financing through 2018 because its situation has deteriorated since it closed...

French President Francois Hollande has called on Iran for help in the Syrian conflict during a Bastille Day speech in which he praised a landmark Iranian nuclear agreement. Hollande said the deal shows the "world is moving forward" and that...

The latest from Greece's financial crisis (all times local): ___ 7:45 p.m. Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says the new deal for Greece puts more emphasis on much-needed structural reforms and less on...

The latest from Greece's financial crisis (all times local): ___ 5:30 a.m. A Greek official says Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has two issues to settle with European creditors before he's in a position to reach an agreement that would help shore up his...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and skeptical European leaders negotiated past a self-imposed deadline into the early hours of Monday, with talks stuck on how Greece would guarantee austerity measures in exchange for a rescue package to prevent its...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and skeptical European leaders negotiated past a self-imposed deadline into the early hours of Monday, with talks stuck on how Greece would guarantee austerity measures in exchange for a rescue package to prevent its...

The latest from Greece's financial crisis (all times local): ___ 3:47 a.m. The official vote count for Greece's parliament vote to back reform proposals has been announced, with 251 lawmakers voting in favor, 32 against and 8 voting 'present' — a form...

Greece's parliament backed the government's reform plan containing austerity measures to win a third bailout early Saturday, but with the government suffering significant losses from dissenting lawmakers. The motion sought to authorize the government to...